on 23/05/2011 12:55 Andrey V. Elsukov said the following: > Hi, > > Since after r221788 many people report about lost of access to their > MBR partitions, i prepared new patch: > > http://people.freebsd.org/~ae/mbr_geometry.diff > > It removes from GEOM_PART_MBR constraints to alignment to track. > Now it is possible to create MBR partitions with exactly specified > start offset and size, and they will not be recalculated by kernel. > > Also the patch adds new option "-g" to the gpart(8) utility. This > option can be specified for "add" and "resize" subcommands. > gpart(8) uses information about provider's "geometry" and does > partition alignment how it did before for MBR. > > With these changes we give to users the choice how align their > partitions and also we still able to use some "broken" partition > tables.
My personal opinion is that removing geometry enforcement (or even consideration) is a correct decision. -- Andriy Gapon _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-geom To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
